• Source for HP calculator manuals

    From Eric Rechlin@21:1/5 to All on Fri Mar 31 14:03:18 2023
    For those who have not yet noticed, I have fairly quietly launched a new
    web site for sharing manuals and other books related to HP calculators
    at https://literature.hpcalc.org

    As of this writing, after more than 2 years of work, I am hosting well
    over 1,500 PDF documents totaling about 212,000 pages, taking over 37 GB
    of space.

    So far, I have personally scanned more than 750 books totaling over
    94,000 pages. I scanned and processed all of these at 600 dpi and, with
    few exceptions, produced 400 dpi OCR'd PDFs out of them.

    Another 543 PDFs came directly from HP, with over 87,000 pages. For the
    most part, these were at one point on their web site, but due to various reorganizations, many of them have since vanished.

    About 60 PDFs are original documents provided by the community, and not
    scans. Finally, the remaining 160 or so PDFs were based on scans made
    by others in the community, and cleaned up and turned into OCR'd PDFs by
    me.

    I now consider the collection to be substantially complete, with nearly
    every English-language manual from HP scanned, and most of the popular third-party books scanned as well. Over the next few months I expect to
    finish scanning all the books already offered to me by others in the
    community. My future goals for the site are to continue scanning new
    books as I can obtain them, as well as to rescan some of those that were scanned by others to produce higher quality PDFs. Manuals translated to
    other languages have not been a priority for me to seek out, but I have welcomed them when they have been made available to me.

    A big thanks should go to Richard Nelson for lending me most of the
    books I scanned, and to Adam Jones who coordinated with me as Richard's collection was sent to him for resale. Secondarily, another big thanks
    should go to Bob Prosperi who lent dozens of additional books to me to
    scan. Finally, there are many others who have donated or lent books to
    me to scan, ensuring my scanner has stayed warm the last couple years!

    Eric

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  • From mnavarro@21:1/5 to Eric Rechlin on Wed Apr 5 22:39:49 2023
    On Friday, March 31, 2023 at 3:03:23 PM UTC-4, Eric Rechlin wrote:
    For those who have not yet noticed, I have fairly quietly launched a new
    web site for sharing manuals and other books related to HP calculators
    at https://literature.hpcalc.org

    As of this writing, after more than 2 years of work, I am hosting well
    over 1,500 PDF documents totaling about 212,000 pages, taking over 37 GB
    of space.

    So far, I have personally scanned more than 750 books totaling over
    94,000 pages. I scanned and processed all of these at 600 dpi and, with
    few exceptions, produced 400 dpi OCR'd PDFs out of them.

    Another 543 PDFs came directly from HP, with over 87,000 pages. For the
    most part, these were at one point on their web site, but due to various reorganizations, many of them have since vanished.

    About 60 PDFs are original documents provided by the community, and not scans. Finally, the remaining 160 or so PDFs were based on scans made
    by others in the community, and cleaned up and turned into OCR'd PDFs by
    me.

    I now consider the collection to be substantially complete, with nearly every English-language manual from HP scanned, and most of the popular third-party books scanned as well. Over the next few months I expect to finish scanning all the books already offered to me by others in the community. My future goals for the site are to continue scanning new
    books as I can obtain them, as well as to rescan some of those that were scanned by others to produce higher quality PDFs. Manuals translated to other languages have not been a priority for me to seek out, but I have welcomed them when they have been made available to me.

    A big thanks should go to Richard Nelson for lending me most of the
    books I scanned, and to Adam Jones who coordinated with me as Richard's collection was sent to him for resale. Secondarily, another big thanks should go to Bob Prosperi who lent dozens of additional books to me to
    scan. Finally, there are many others who have donated or lent books to
    me to scan, ensuring my scanner has stayed warm the last couple years!

    Eric


    Hi Eric.

    Thank you very much for all your hard work and all your amazing contributions to the hp enthusiast community around the world.

    I've been using your literature platform and It's great. I can say It is like a dream comes true.

    I specially appreciate the fact that every time I go there I find something interesting to read.

    Some of those documents were not that easy to get years before.

    The platform is very fast to search and download .

    The resolution of the scanned documents is excellent too.

    All of this together make using your platform a great experience.










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  • From nabru@21:1/5 to All on Thu Apr 13 22:26:07 2023
    Em 31/03/2023 16:03, Eric Rechlin escreveu:
    For those who have not yet noticed, I have fairly quietly launched a new
    web site for sharing manuals and other books related to HP calculators
    at https://literature.hpcalc.org

    You might want to talk to the guys at the Internet Archive, they'd
    surely be interested in archiving a copy.

    nabru
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  • From Eric Rechlin@21:1/5 to Eric Rechlin on Thu Nov 30 17:26:07 2023
    To follow up on my post from eight months ago (see below), I am now
    caught up with scanning everything that has been sent to me.

    This means I have now scanned around 900 books totaling over 116,000
    pages, with the total literature collection containing close to 1,700
    PDF documents totaling about 238,000 pages, taking close to 45 GB of space.

    More scans will continue to be added in the future, but at a much slower
    pace, only as the books are lent or given to me to scan.

    Please feel free to look through the list of missing items here, and if
    you can help make a scan of any of them possible, please let me know:

    https://literature.hpcalc.org/missing

    Eric

    On 2023-03-31 14:03, Eric Rechlin wrote:
    For those who have not yet noticed, I have fairly quietly launched a new
    web site for sharing manuals and other books related to HP calculators
    at https://literature.hpcalc.org

    As of this writing, after more than 2 years of work, I am hosting well
    over 1,500 PDF documents totaling about 212,000 pages, taking over 37 GB
    of space.

    So far, I have personally scanned more than 750 books totaling over
    94,000 pages. I scanned and processed all of these at 600 dpi and, with
    few exceptions, produced 400 dpi OCR'd PDFs out of them.

    Another 543 PDFs came directly from HP, with over 87,000 pages. For the
    most part, these were at one point on their web site, but due to various reorganizations, many of them have since vanished.

    About 60 PDFs are original documents provided by the community, and not scans. Finally, the remaining 160 or so PDFs were based on scans made
    by others in the community, and cleaned up and turned into OCR'd PDFs by
    me.

    I now consider the collection to be substantially complete, with nearly
    every English-language manual from HP scanned, and most of the popular third-party books scanned as well. Over the next few months I expect to finish scanning all the books already offered to me by others in the community. My future goals for the site are to continue scanning new
    books as I can obtain them, as well as to rescan some of those that were scanned by others to produce higher quality PDFs. Manuals translated to other languages have not been a priority for me to seek out, but I have welcomed them when they have been made available to me.

    A big thanks should go to Richard Nelson for lending me most of the
    books I scanned, and to Adam Jones who coordinated with me as Richard's collection was sent to him for resale. Secondarily, another big thanks should go to Bob Prosperi who lent dozens of additional books to me to
    scan. Finally, there are many others who have donated or lent books to
    me to scan, ensuring my scanner has stayed warm the last couple years!

    Eric

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